Sends a Wake-On-Lan magic packet to the specified address.

wol.py

import socket
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Wake-On-Lan magic packet sender")
parser.add_argument("ip_address", help="IP address or hostname of the destination")
parser.add_argument("mac_address", help="The mac addresss of the target host")
parser.add_argument("-p", "--port", help="Optional port to send to")

arguments = parser.parse_args()

port = 9
if arguments.port:
	port = arguments.port

udp_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
udp_socket.sendto(bytearray.fromhex(
	('FF' * 6) + (arguments.mac_address * 16)
), (arguments.ip_address, int(port)))

print('Packet sent')